-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > > ...notice the -static one in there. Apparently -devel wants the > -static one as well. Which is fine, however I can't just install > -static with -ivh because it wants the -devel at the same time. And > I can't update the -devel one through -Fvh because -static isn't > installed. > > Someone explain to me why this "chicken and egg" scenario exists > in various packages (I'm takling of previous versinos of FC here)? > It has been like that for years with some package or another. And > chances are a bunch of you are going to sing it in chorus to me: use > yum. Well fine, however that still does not solve the underlying > problem of why this is happening in the first place nor how to > successfully solve it with rpm, instead of switching to yum. > ... it happens on occasion, (a) Download the 3 update files, or find them in the up2date cache or yum cache or wherever you downloaded them originally. (b) Try 'rpm -ivh elfutils-libelf-*.rpm' or 'rpm -Fvh elfutils-libelf-*.rpm'. (c) That should work. - -James -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFvmZ6kNLDmnu1kSkRAiH3AJ466QDBMYsQcCT7o0+nDrwuC8YN9gCeMuwv 4hLGRFhgfa5cS+asR++NtNo= =ym7a -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Scanned by ClamAV - http://www.clamav.net
